Bill Murray Quotes

Everyone needs to take a vacation from the sort of automatic things you do.

You’ll never be good if you don’t know that you are.

Here's the thing, you just have to drive a lot faster, and if you don't get there, we're both fired.

One of the things I like about acting is that, in a funny way, I come back to myself.

We're Americans! Do you know what that means? It means our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world.

It’s fun to watch someone like John Goodman, and yet it takes work. People say ‘he’s not acting, he’s being himself.’ Well it’s hard to be yourself, it’s the hardest job there is.

You have to be as light as you can be and not get weighed down and stuck in your emotion, stuck in your body, stuck in your head. You just want to always be trying to elevate somehow.

I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.

I’ve killed myself so many times, I don’t even exist anymore.

The human condition means that we can zone out and forget what the hell we're doing.

If people really want to find you, they find you.

I smell varmint poontang. And the only good varmint poontang is dead varmint poontang, I think.

Well it's hard to be yourself, it's the hardest job there is.

I think all phases of one's career are serious if you take it seriously no matter if you are doing high profile dramatic pieces or not.

I think that the online world has actually brought books back. People are reading because they're reading the damn screen. That's more reading than people used to do.

Yeah, I think that's sort of the American way. And it's also the Polish way, it turns out.

And when I told my sons I might be in City of Ember, they said, 'Oh! You're gonna be the mayor?' And I hadn't even read the script yet.

Half of the people in this room are more dressed up than on any other day in the year, and the other half are more dressed down.

I'm not an ungenerous person; I don't resent it. It's just sort of a head-scratcher.

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

My iPhone has 2 million times the storage of the 1969 Apollo 11 computer. They went to the moon. I throw birds at pig houses

The cool part about naming your kid is you don’t have to add six numbers to make sure the name is available.

I've got kids and that's important. It's funny, you think that there's an expiration date on them and there just isn't.

I love the financing. It's fun to do studio movies, too. I think you should do both. You don't want to be this, "He's an independent film guy." It sounds like, "He makes his own dresses."

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

I don't want to have a relationship with someone if I'm not going to work with them.

I don't have to take this abuse from you -- I have hundreds of people waiting in line to abuse me!

Those are my people, you know? The ones who are going to crash and burn.

That's the reason I'm not the one that's dead because the attraction of the fast life is very powerful.

We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.

I count on the kindness of strangers.

I'm just a potato that won't quit. I'm a potato with some legs. Some have eyes, I've got legs.

I feel like I'm a better person when I'm quieter.

We still have to put some cherry syrup on it, and then we can eat it

All parties are good.

Most people, when they talk fast, they get flat.

People say I'm difficult and sometimes that's a badge of honour.

The last thing I want is to be (in a film role) is obvious, direct and offensive.

It's a lot of work to read a crummy script.

I don't know how this guy knew how much money I was making. I didn't know how much money I was making.

Chicago actors are hard-nosed. They're tough on themselves and their fellow actors. They're self-demanding.

I've been lucky, I've had movies that made a lot of money, so I don't feel like I have to kill every time out. I don't want that pressure. I don't need it.

I don't really read the reviews, but I remember one a long time ago I read that said that I had a face like a potato.

It's hard to be an artist. It's hard to be anything. It's hard to be.

Every moment that you share someone else's pain, feel what they feel, makes you more human.

If you walk up to some random person on the street, grab them by the shoulder, and say 'Did you just see what I saw?!', you'll find that no-one wants to talk to you.

I know how to be sour. I know that taste.

Drinking again? Go to hell. All I ever do is make some movies that made a lot of money now leave me alone, I want to have some fun.

I'm just an obnoxious guy who can make it appear charming, that's what they pay me to do.

Totie Fields is one of my benchmarks for a lot of things. There was a standard of show business.